South Carolina left the Union of the The United States of America in December of 1860 sounding off the spring 1861 flood of Southern states that left the Union ultimately making headway for the Confederate States of America that lasted all of four years. Although many of the Confederate leaders were charged with treason and […]
Read more "The New Confederate States of America?"As you all can kind of figure out, I’m up to my eyes in work dealing with school and I haven’t done a serious blog in a minute. I’m running left and right playing to services on campus and trying to squeeze in classes and schoolwork that I really don’t care about for the […]
Read more "I Want To Teabag the TeaBaggers–the Uppity Way!!"I did a Guest Post spot over at AverageBro.com for all interested parties. Journey on over there with the thought in your mind “When Does Gangsta Boo Have To Go?” Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Uppity Negro Does a Guest Post"I’ve always talked about it, and I finally got around to posting something. But that’s me on the organ and some of my other friends toward the end of rehearsal. We have a group on campus known as the Ecumenical Voices of Praise and we sing for the random services on campus week to week. […]
Read more "The Uppity Negro In Church…"I remember watching George Bush walk out of St. John’s Church on January 20, 2001 on the slightly rainy inauguration day that year, and I remember at 16 wondering what it would be like to see a black man as a president having to attend a white church service. I imagined that he’d be going […]
Read more "The Obamas’ Search For a Spiritual Home"Okay, I’m probably late with this clip, but here it goes Keep it uppity and keep it truthfully radical, JLL
Read more "Only at an HBCU…."So America’s favorite black voice on all things black, Michael Eric Dyson, has been given a new lease on life as far as radio show is concerned. Oprah Winfrey is confirmed as Michael Eric Dyson’s first guest on his new public radio show, the African American Public Radio Consortium announced on Tuesday. Other confirmed guests to appear in […]
Read more "The Public Intellectual Strikes Again"The black community, maybe more than any other, is affective linked to churches and their pastors to the degree that criticism of either (no matter how rational) is often viewed as nothing short of an attack on God…Unfortunately, black ministers (be they emancipators or collaborators in oppression) are often protected from secular intellectual confrontation by […]
Read more "Random Uppity Negro Quote of the Day"Hello to all you members of the Uppity Negro Network!! I’d like to invite the Network on a journey into the trials and tribulations of a third-year grad student who’s at his wits ends about graduating. Honestly, if anyone who reads this has some heads up on some opportunities PLEASE, OH PLEASE feel free to […]
Read more "Upon Becoming a Post-Graduate Negro"
Joshua Lawrence Lazard 